Nieman Notes

How a game of ‘whisper down the coal mine’ ricocheted around the world.

Last December the January-February issue of The Atlantic Monthly went to press. It was the last one to be published in Boston of the 1,771 issues of The Atlantic published…

A valuable collection of historic newspapers is used to put ‘journalistic skills to work on news long dead.’

In our new outreach to journalism professors and students, Nieman Reports initiated an effort to help teachers use the content of our magazine in their classrooms. To do this, we…

On December 5, 2005, the news that 80-year-old Liu Binyan, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, had passed away saddened Chinese, both in China and abroad. Numerous condolence letters and memorial articles…

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’

A photojournalist on assignment uncovers dormant feelings about his past and the South.

At the American Academy, debate and dialogue lead to changed perspectives.

A drug-sniffing dog, donated by the French government, is used to search a truck by Anti-Narcotics Police at Shahid Sherofat checkpoint near Esfahan, Iran, while a bus passes in the…

‘… I finally got to make some peaceful and quiet pictures.’